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Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara – Died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh

19 May 2026

THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day and were born within a fortnight of each other in February 1957 – marked a critical escalation in the prison struggle as well as the struggle outside the prisons walls. Free article

Why is McGurk’s Bar bombing British Army HQ file being kept secret for 85 years?

9 November 2016

Veil of secrecy hampers search for truth by victim’s relative Free article

Gerry Adams: The people of the USA have spoken – now we have to work with President Trump

9 November 2016

‘Irish-America have been the consistent drivers of support from successive administrations for Ireland,’ says Sinn Féin leader Free article

Coroner says he cannot adjudge truth despite forensic evidence showing unarmed IRA Volunteer shot in back three times by RUC squad

8 November 2016

Pearse Jordan’s family vows to continue fight for justice Free article

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Contributions from key figures in the churches, academia and wider civic society as well as senior republican figures

Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara – Died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh

Why is McGurk’s Bar bombing British Army HQ file being kept secret for 85 years?

Gerry Adams: The people of the USA have spoken – now we have to work with President Trump

Coroner says he cannot adjudge truth despite forensic evidence showing unarmed IRA Volunteer shot in back three times by RUC squad

Tribute to the dead of Ardoyne, Ligoniel and the Bone unveiled by relatives of fallen and heroes of 1916

Disability rights conference in Louth hears ‘Brexit will take us backwards’

Garda crisis should not have got to brink of strike – Gerry Adams accuses Government

Máire Drumm – Carrying the flame of freedom

McGurk’s bar bomb – British Army HQ log discovery prompts renewed call for all state files to be opened

All-Island Civic Dialogue must focus on alternatives to Brexit, says Gerry Adams

Brexit – Unprecedented challenges to jobs, investment, public services and political progress